5. The state Fair Political Practices Commission voted to tighten lobbying rules, closing a loophole that effectively had allowed ex-legislators to avoid registering as lobbyists and instead call themselves “experts,” the SacBee$ reports.

6. The US Justice Department sued to block the parent company of the Los Angeles Times from buying the bankrupt Orange County Register and Riverside Press Enterprise, alleging that the purchase violates anti-trust rules, the LA Times$ reports. The DOJ contends that the deal would give Tribune Publishing, which owns the LA Times, an unfair monopoly on daily papers in Southern California.